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• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library
  Subject Coverage: Computing
  Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• aecportico
  Subject Coverage: Architecture, engineering and construction
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Biotechnological techniques in food industry, agriculture, and environment
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• AgriGate
  Subject Coverage: Agriculture, forestry, environment, food science
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Algology Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)
  Subject Coverage: Reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Altis
  Subject Coverage: Hospitality, sport, leisure and tourism
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Aluminium Industry Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Aluminium processes, products, applications, developments
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• American Chemical Society
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• American Institute of Physics Online Journal Publishing Service
  Subject Coverage: Physics, Engineering, Science
  Type: eJournal service
  See: Scitation

• American Mathematical Society
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• American Physical Society
  Subject Coverage: Physics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
  Subject Coverage: Microbiology
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Animal Behavior Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Aggression, learning, foraging and ingestion
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Annual Reviews
  Subject Coverage: Science, some Psychology
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• ANTE (Abstracts in New Technology and Engineering)
  Subject Coverage: Engineering, Technology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Applied Science & Technology Full Text
  Subject Coverage: Applied Sciences, Technology
  Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Aqualine
  Subject Coverage: Water resources, treatment, pollution
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Artifact
  Subject Coverage: Arts and Creative Industries
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  Subject Coverage: Arts, humanities
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• arXiv e-Print archive
  Subject Coverage: Physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology
  Type: Digital repository
  
• ASCE Civil Engineering Database
  Subject Coverage: Civil Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)
  Subject Coverage: Aquaculture, oceanography, marine environments
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
  Subject Coverage: Marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources
  Subject Coverage: Oceanography, limnology, coastal structures
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
  Subject Coverage: Aquatic pollution, prevention and control
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Aquaculture, culture of fish and other organisms
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Molecular biotechnology, cell/tissue culture
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
  Subject Coverage: Social services, psychology, sociology, health information
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Atypon Link
  Subject Coverage:
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
  Subject Coverage: Bacteriology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• BioEngineering Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Biomedical engineering, biomaterials, biotechnology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Biogate
  Subject Coverage: Biological sciences
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Biological Sciences
  Subject Coverage: Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, agriculture, veterinary science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Biology Digest
  Subject Coverage: Biology, life sciences
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• BIOME
  Subject Coverage: Health & life sciences
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Biotechnology and bioengineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Biz/ed
  Subject Coverage: Business, economics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Blackwell Synergy
  Subject Coverage: Multidisciplinary
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• BRE (Building Research Establishment) Bookshop
  Subject Coverage: All Subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• British Standards Online
  Subject Coverage: British Standards (full-text)
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• BUBL LINK
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Multi-subject gateway
  
• Business Source Elite
  Subject Coverage: Business, management, economics, finance
  Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
  Accessed via: EbscoHost

• Butterworths' Tax Direct
  Subject Coverage: Tax law
  Type: Reference source
  See: LexisNexis Butterworths

• Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Biology of bones and teeth, ubiquitous role of ionic calcium
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Cambridge Journals Online (CJO)
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• CBA (Construction and Building Abstracts)
  Subject Coverage: Building, Construction
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• CCH Accounting and Auditing Publications
  Subject Coverage: Accountancy and Auding
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Census Dissemination Unit (CDU)
  Subject Coverage: UK Census data
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Ceramic Abstracts / World Ceramic Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Manufacture, processing, applications, and properties of ceramics
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• CERN Document Server (CDS)
  Subject Coverage: Particle physics and related areas
  Type: Digital repository
  
• ChemACX Net
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry - chemical catalogues
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• ChemDex
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• ChemFinder.com
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• ChemIDPlus
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry: structure and nomenclature for NLM cited substances
  Type: Reference source
  
• ChemIndustry.com
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• ChemInfo
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• Chemistry WWW Virtual Library
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Chemistry2000
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Chemoreception Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Biology and sensory studies of taste, smell, and pheromones
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ChemWeb.com Quick Abstract Search
  Subject Coverage: Organic chemistry
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required
  
• CIDER
  Subject Coverage: UK Census data
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Coaching Science Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Applied sport science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• CogPrints
  Subject Coverage: Psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science
  Type: Digital repository
  OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required
  
• Colour Index
  Subject Coverage: Nomenclature, constitution, main applications and suppliers of dyes and pigments
  Type: Product database
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Computer & Information Systems Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Computing and information systems
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Computing & Computer Science WWW Virtual Library
  Subject Coverage: Computing & computer science
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
  Subject Coverage: Computer Science
  Type: Full-text bibliographic database
  
• Conference Papers Index
  Subject Coverage: Science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Copper Data Center Database
  Subject Coverage: Copper, copper alloys and copper technology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Corrosion Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Corrosion science and engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Croner's Health and Safety Legal Expert
  Subject Coverage: Health and safety law
  Type: Reference source
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Civil engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• CSA Illumina
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• CSA Neurosciences Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Neurobiology, motor and sensory systems, memory, Alzheimer's disease
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Cyburbia: Urban Planning Portal
  Subject Coverage: Urban planning
  Type: Web forum
  OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required
  
• DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
  Subject Coverage: Art, Crafts, Design
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Delphion
  Subject Coverage: Patents
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Free service - "Basic Registration" required
  
• Dialogues concerning two new sciences
  Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Collection
  Subject Coverage: Ordnance Survey map data
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Individual Registration and ATHENS Account Required
  
• Digital Dissertations
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  See: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts

• Drug Information Database (DID)
  Subject Coverage: Pharmaceuticals (specifically usage in sports)
  Type: Reference source
  
• EbscoHost
  Subject Coverage: Multiple subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Ecology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, human ecology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• EconLit
  Subject Coverage: Economic theory and application
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• EEVL
  Subject Coverage: Engineering, mathematics, computing
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• EEVL Xtra
  Subject Coverage: Engineering, mathematics, computing
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• EEVL: Computing
  Subject Coverage: Computing
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• EEVL: Engineering
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• EEVL: Mathematics
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
  Subject Coverage: Air transportation, defense programs, parks, refuges, forests
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Eldis
  Subject Coverage: Development & environment
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Electronics and Communications Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Electronics and communications
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ELS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences)
  Subject Coverage: Life Sciences
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Emerald Fulltext (MCB University Press)
  Subject Coverage: All Subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Encyclopedia of Energy
  Subject Coverage: Energy
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
  Subject Coverage: Food science and technology
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Energy Citations Database (ECD)
  Subject Coverage: Energy and energy-related scientific and technical information
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Engineered Materials Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Polymers, ceramics, and composites
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Engineering E-journal Search Engine (EESE)
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Engineering Problem Solving: A Classical Perspective
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Engineering Village 2
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Web-based information service
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Entomology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, behavior
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Environment Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Enviroment
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
  Subject Coverage: Environmental sciences, pollution
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• ERIC
  Subject Coverage: Education
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• esp@cenet
  Subject Coverage: Patents
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Essential Facts - Employment
  Subject Coverage: Employment law
  Type: Reference source
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Scottish Borders Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry and chemical engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Financial Times newspaper
  Subject Coverage: Business, Finance, Economics
  Type: Newspaper
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• Flavouring Agents Database
  Subject Coverage: Flavouring agent specifications
  Type: Reference source
  
• Food Additives Database
  Subject Coverage: Food additive specifications
  Type: Reference source
  
• FunderFinder: People in Need
  Subject Coverage: Charitable funding
  Type: Reference source
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• Genetics Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Chromosomes, evolutionary genetics, cell cycle
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• GESource
  Subject Coverage: Geography & environment
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
  Subject Coverage: Engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Health and Safety Science Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Public health, safety, and industrial hygiene
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Housing Management Standards Manual
  Subject Coverage: Housing management standards
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Human Genome Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Gene cloning, gene therapy, genetic screening
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Human Kinetics
  Subject Coverage: Sport science
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Human Population & Natural Resource Management
  Subject Coverage: Human population, control, and effect on natural resource management
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Humbul
  Subject Coverage: Humanities
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• I Love Languages
  Subject Coverage: Language
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
  Subject Coverage: Social Sciences
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Ovid Online

• ICONDA (International Construction Database)
  Subject Coverage: Construction / Building / Civil Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• IDS Brief
  Subject Coverage: Employment law
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• IDS HR Case Study Library
  Subject Coverage: Human resources
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• IDS Pay Report
  Subject Coverage: Pay agreements and structures
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (via IEEE Xplore)
  Subject Coverage: Electrical engineering, Computing
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996
  Subject Coverage:
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Immunology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Immunization, autoimmunity, genetics
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Index to Theses
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
  Subject Coverage: Food Microbiology, microbial resistance, fermentation
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• InformaWorld
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• IngentaConnect
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Institute of Physics
  Subject Coverage: Physics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Institution of Structural Engineers Library
  Subject Coverage: Civil engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Inteletex
  Subject Coverage: Global textiles industry
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
  Subject Coverage: Physics, chemistry and engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Internet Directory of Botany (IDB)
  Subject Coverage: Botany
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• ISI HighlyCited.com
  Subject Coverage: Details of academic researchers - all subjects
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• ISI Web of Knowledge
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  See: Web Of Knowledge

• Journal Citation Reports
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• JSTOR
  Subject Coverage: Business
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• just-style.com
  Subject Coverage: Textile and apparel industries
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• K-Essentials
  Subject Coverage: Science and engineering
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Key Note Reports
  Subject Coverage: Market research
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Knovel Critical Tables (full & lite)
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry and chemical engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• LexisNexis Butterworths
  Subject Coverage: Tax law
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Linguistics, language
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Materials Business File
  Subject Coverage: Metals and materials industries
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• MathGuide
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• MathSciNet
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• MatWeb
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry: material properties
  Type: Reference source
  
• Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Mechanical & production engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Genetic engineering, antibodies, patents
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• MEDLINE
  Subject Coverage: Biomedicine
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• METADEX
  Subject Coverage: Metals and alloys
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)
  Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• MetaPress
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Military handbook (MIL-HDBK-5H): Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures
  Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Mintel Reports
  Subject Coverage: Market reports
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• MPRESS: MathNet Preprints
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: Full-text bibliographic database
  
• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  Subject Coverage: Physics, astrophysics, instrumentation
  Type: Digital repository
  
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Criminal and juvenile justice, drug control, law enforcement
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• National Research Register
  Subject Coverage: Health-related research
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• National Statistics Online
  Subject Coverage: UK official statistics
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers
  Subject Coverage: Economics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL)
  Subject Coverage: Computer science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Chemistry Web Book
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Reference source
  
• NTIS (U.S. National Technical Information Service)
  Subject Coverage: Science, all subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Nucleic Acids Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Gene manipulation, DNA, transfer RNA
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Oceanic Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Oceanography, marine biology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Official Journal CD (OJCD)
  Subject Coverage: European law & legislation
  Type: Reference source
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• Offshore Engineering Information Service (OEIS)
  Subject Coverage: Offshore engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Papers Online
  Subject Coverage: Offshore drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection
  Type: Digital repository
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Oil Index (Norwegian language)
  Subject Coverage: Offshore Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Free service (Remember: "Søk" = "Search")
  
• OilVoice
  Subject Coverage: Oil and gas industry information
  Type: Web-based information service
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Cancerous cell growth, serine
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• OneStep Industry News
  Subject Coverage: Engineering, mathematics, computing
  Type: NewsFeed (multiple sources)
  
• Organic Synthesis
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Web-based information service
  
• OSIRIS
  Subject Coverage: Company Information
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• OSU Virtual Finance Library
  Subject Coverage: Finance
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Ovid Online
  Subject Coverage: Sports science , psychology, social sciences
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Oxford Journals (OUP)
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Petroleum Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Petroleum and offshore engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Physical Education Index
  Subject Coverage: Physical education
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• PhysicsWeb
  Subject Coverage: Physics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Pinakes
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Multi-subject gateway
  
• Pollution Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Air pollution, marine pollution, waste management
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Portland Press
  Subject Coverage: Biochemistry and related
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Power Diffraction File (PDF)
  Subject Coverage: Diffraction data (crystaline materials)
  Type: Reference source
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
  Subject Coverage: Physics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• PSIgate
  Subject Coverage: Physical Sciences
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• PsycArticles (Your Journals@Ovid)
  Subject Coverage:
  Type: eJournal service
  Accessed via: Ovid Online

• PsychWeb
  Subject Coverage: Psychology
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• PsycINFO
  Subject Coverage: Psychology and related subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Ovid Online

• PubChem
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry: substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data
  Type: Reference source
  
• PubList.com
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required
  
• PubMed
  Subject Coverage: Medicine, biomedicine
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing)
  Subject Coverage: Manufacturing and related subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  
• Research Training Initiative
  Subject Coverage: Art, Design and Media
  Type: Web-based Research Resource Centre
  
• RICS Library Direct
  Subject Coverage: Construction and Surveying
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Risk Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Technological risks, biological risks, natural hazards
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Journals Archive
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Online Journal Service
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Sage Journals Online
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs)
  Subject Coverage: UK Census data
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Sapling
  Subject Coverage: Architecture, planning
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Science Citation Index Expanded
  Subject Coverage: Science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• ScienceDirect
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
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• Scirus
  Subject Coverage: Science, patents
  Type: Search engine
  
• Scitation
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• SCOTBIS (Members' Area)
  Subject Coverage: Business, company and market information
  Type: Web-based information service
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
  Subject Coverage: Mathematics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Rev. Ed.)
  Subject Coverage: Science and engineering
  Type: Reference source
  Accessed via: K-Essentials

• Social Science Citation Index
  Subject Coverage: Social science
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• Social Services Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Social work, human services, and related areas
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Sociological Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Sociology, social and behavioural sciences
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Solid state and superconductivity technology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• SOSIG
  Subject Coverage: Social science
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• SOSIG Business and Management Gateway
  Subject Coverage: Business, Management
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• SOSIG Economics Gateway
  Subject Coverage: Economics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• SPE eLibrary
  Subject Coverage: Petroleum Engineering
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Spectral Database System (SDBS) for Organic Compounds
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry: compound and spectral data
  Type: Reference source
  
• SPORTDiscus
  Subject Coverage: Sports science and related subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: EbscoHost

• Sports Contacts Database
  Subject Coverage: Sporting contacs and facilities
  Type: Reference source
  
• Springer LINK
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]
  
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland
  Subject Coverage: Statistics
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• Statistics WWW Virtual Library
  Subject Coverage: Statistics
  Type: Subject gateway
  
• Taylor & Francis Journals
  Subject Coverage:
  Type: eJournal service
  See: MetaPress (chiefly Taylor & Francis)

• Thomas Telford Journals
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Thomson Business Intelligence: News Research
  Subject Coverage: Business and management news
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Toxicology Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Pharmaceuticals, chemicals, contaminants
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• TOXLINE
  Subject Coverage: Toxicology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Translation Studies Abstracts (TSA) and Bibliography of Translation Studies
  Subject Coverage: Translation and interpreting
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• UKBORDERS
  Subject Coverage: UK Census data
  Type: Reference source
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• University of Chicago Journals
  Subject Coverage: Business, Economics
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• URBADISC
  Subject Coverage: Urban planning & policy
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Format: CD-ROM
  Location: Riccarton Campus
  Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.
  
• US Patents Database
  Subject Coverage: US Patents (full-text)
  Type: Reference source
  
• Virology and AIDS Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: AIDS, immunology, antiviral agents
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• VisElements
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry: visual interpretation of the Table of Elements
  Type: Reference source
  
• Water Resources Abstracts
  Subject Coverage: Water-related topics
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: CSA Illumina

• Web Elements periodic table (Scholar edition)
  Subject Coverage: Chemistry
  Type: Reference source
  
• Web Of Knowledge
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
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• Web of Science Proceedings (Science & Technology)
  Subject Coverage: Science, technology
  Type: Bibliographic database
  Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

• WGSN-edu (Worth Global Style Network - Educational)
  Subject Coverage: Fashion and style
  Type: Newspaper
  OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD.
  
• Wiley InterScience
  Subject Coverage: Science
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• World Textiles
  Subject Coverage: Textiles and related subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS.
  
• WorldSciNet (World Scientific Journals)
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: eJournal service
  OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  
• Zetoc
  Subject Coverage: All subjects
  Type: Bibliographic database
  OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN.
  [ Alternative Access Methods ]